Word: emption
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Despite appearances, the White House insists that Bush's goals have not changed. "The President has always stressed that different circumstances warrant different responses," says White House counselor Dan Bartlett. "The impression that the doctrine of pre-emption was the only guiding foreign policy light is not true. Iraq was a unique circumstance in history, and the sense of urgency on certain decisions in the early part of the first term was reflective of a nation that had to take decisive action after being attacked...
...grind of the war in Iraq has undermined one plank of the Bush Doctrine--pre-emption--the complexity of global politics has caused the U.S. to struggle in its goal to spread democracy as a defense against terrorism. Some democracy activists give Bush credit for giving a jump start to limited reforms in closed Arab regimes such as Saudi Arabia. But the White House was premature, at best, in its hopes for dramatic change. In Egypt, which the Administration has praised in the past for opening its political process, the government of Hosni Mubarak has launched a renewed crackdown against...
After Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush made three major changes to the grand strategy that the U.S. had pursued for a half-century. He reduced reliance on permanent alliances and institutions, broadened the traditional right of pre-emption into a new doctrine of preventive war and advocated coercive democratization as a solution to the problem of terrorism in the Middle East. His September 2002 National Security Strategy was widely seen as revolutionary...
...Despite the difficulties in Iraq, the 49-page report unapologetically reasserts the administration's belief in the doctrine of pre-emption, attacking states or terrorists groups that it believes are a threat to the United States before they can attack us. It declares diplomacy to be the first option in resolving crises, but goes on to say that "we do not rule out the use of force before attacks occur, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack." The document also reiterates the administration's commitment to spreading democracy around the world...
...When pre-emption becomes impossible, the least you can do is supply people with the means of escape and survival. Thats what our courageous first responders did for countless New Yorkers on September 11, and what so many ordinary people have done throughout the floods. We may never know how many were saved by their heroic spirit of mutual...